Martin Collins, citing Rabbi Gilles Bernheim's criticism of the attack on the family in the name of "human freedom," claims the LGBT community is carrying out Satan's well-orchestrated plan to destroy God's creation of gender roles and marriage. Even though Dr. Paul Mc Hugh, in his rigorous research of post transgendered patients, reveals that their suicide rate is 20% higher than unoperated "transgender" patients, leftist "Progressive" legislators in some States have barred psychiatrists from attempting to restore the natural feelings of the gender the patient was born into. Some States allow—and even encourage—doctors to prescribe gender—delaying hormones, as well as feminizing hormones, while some schools in Britain are permitting boys to wear skirts as part of their uniform. In an attempt to establish gender-fluidity as a cultural norm, policy makers are allowing drag queens to read to young people in some public libraries Rejecting the truth that it is God who knits individuals together in the womb, thereby assigning them their gender, and ignoring the fact that it is God who created marriage as a God-plane relationship, "Progressives' have perverted society's norms, calling evil good and good evil. When God-given freedom becomes license for people to whimsically and promiscuously create themselves, society is in its death throes.

Martin Collins, citing an article appearing in March 22, 2011, from Mercantornet by Babette Francis, Pro-life Coordinator of Endeavor Forum Incorporated, expresses incredulity that the Australian Human Rights Commission has 'catalogued' 23 separate genders, including gays, lesbians, transgender, bisexuals, intersex, androgynous, gender fluid, no-sex, third sex, etc. Although Babette Francis claims that few countries take gender inclusiveness more seriously than Australia, the progressive American leftists, under the leadership of the Clintons and Barack Obama, have been cramming perverted gender policies down the throats of American citizens. Almighty God invented gender and did not make provisions for "make believe" gender identification—certainly not for whimsically choosing a gender on the basis of choices desire, The World Health Organization has identified transgenderism as a mental disorder, as has Dr. Paul McHugh from Johns Hopkins University, who studied the psychological profiles of those patients undergoing sex reassignment surgery at the institution. The mutilation that took place in these experiments did not improve the well-being of these 'transwomen,' but exacerbated the mental disease. The leftist progressive politicians are pulling out all the stops to destroy the family. God is allowing these mentally weak, defective liberal progressives to degenerate to the totally debased mind described by Paul in Romans 1:24.

Our culture appears to be in steep decline, a fact we can see in the undermining of marriage throughout society. Despite having served mankind well down through the millennia, the institution of marriage is crumbling under a three-pronged attack engineered by Satan the Devil. John Ritenbaugh teaches that marriage is vital to understanding God's purpose and learning to live in harmony with one another.

John Ritenbaugh, reiterating that 'progressive' liberal, leftist change agents are engaged in one unified agenda, namely the destruction of culture and the destruction of Christianity, maintains they are being guided by the prince of the power of the air and have successfully created confusion in culture, pitting neighbor against neighbor, weakening the structure of our civilization. A large percentage of our citizenry have accepted the noxious propositions of these change agents. Four examples of such propositions include 1) The preposterous assumptions behind the Black Lives Matter movement, 2) The equally unreasonable notion that white policemen should not be permitted to protect themselves from juvenile thugs, 3) The tacit license granted by society to Planned Parenthood to slay over 300,000 Black infants annually and 4) The endorsement of the scientifically bogus claim of gender-dysphoria, with its resultant public policy of allowing individuals who feel they have been born in the wrong gender to surgically 'switch' body styles. (Serious scientific studies have indicated that the DNA code has been pre-set at birth, and that superficial cutting and pasting does not meaningfully alter gender-specific biological hardware or its supporting chemical processes.) The nadir of liberal childishness is its denial of the reality of human nature, leading to the idea that the confiscation of firearms will result in an end to violence. Liberalism is clearly a dangerous, progressively debilitating mental disorder.

John Ritenbaugh quotes from a shocking letter from 91-year-old former President Jimmy Carter, who asserts that we no long have a true democratic republic in the United states, but instead we are being ruled by an unelected oligarchy (rule by a few elite). Today, we have a government glued together with special interests, leveraging bribes and blackmail to advance failed social programs. No longer do we have a true representative democracy, but a small group of wealthy elite are pulling the strings, transforming our government into a leftist, socialist tyranny, allowing a handful of evil, avaricious men to tap into the public treasury, deluding the gullible public into thinking they are taking care of the people by redistributing the wealth, stealing from the productive and giving it to the unproductive, totally at odds with God’s principles of stewardship. The obstreperous demagogues promising economic goodies from the womb to the tomb have not yet matured to the realization that there is no such thing as a free lunch. We no longer have a trustworthy government. Our ethics and morality, our freedom, our wealth, our dignity, and self-respect, are rapidly eroding away under the willing guidance by a criminal oligarchy, inspired by the prince and power of the air, the current ruler of the world. The judgments of God against this corrupt system have already begun.

Martin Collins, expressing righteous indignation at Satan's successfully executed plan to destroy families, carried on through progressive, leftist, secularist, humanist legislation, making sodomy and infant murder the law of the land, warns us that now pedophilia will be declared normal and hence legal by the reprobate politicians who now dominate the Executive branch and the Supreme Court of the United States Government. Even though Dr. Mace Knapp, Nevada State Prison Psychologist, has warned that "the serial killer has the same personality characteristics as the sex offender against children," left-wing, progressive politicians are hell-bent on declaring pedophilia and 12 other perversions, which they affectionately term "alternative lifestyles," legal. Democrat Congressman from Florida, Alcee Hastings, argued that "all alternative sexual lifestyles should be protected under the law." Now children can be regarded as non-sentient objects, just like shoes or bathroom tissue, in the twisted thinking of the leftist progressive mindset. Welcome to Satan's world!

Martin Collins, averring one of the major things for which we can be thankful is the marriage covenant, examines some of the chilling, corrosive, and detrimental consequences to a society which spurns the God-given marriage covenant. Radical feminism has tried to empower one gender by disabling and marginalizing the other gender, creating a pathological, dysfunctional society in which women cannot find good men to love and cherish and men cannot find good women to love and cherish. The irresponsible social engineers who have launched the ill-fated sexual revolution have damaged the family structure, polarizing men and women rather than viewing them as inseparable partners (metaphorically like two halves of the moon) as God had intended. The pattern of Eve as a help-meet to Adam was instituted before Adam and Eve sinned and was consequently not abrogated by Christ's sacrifice as some Biblical feminists have asserted. Women, to be sure, were never created as servants to their spouses but as complementary companions, sharing physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual relationships which mirror Christ's love for the church by sacrificing His very life for her. God intended husbands and wives to be one in mind and spirit, not bifurcated as Solomon's spiritual relationships with his pagan wives. Marrying outside of the faith makes it difficult to establish this spiritual connection. Daniel Lapin has summarized the pitfalls of the egalitarian marriage arrangements as encouraged by 'liberated' women. In our decadent western culture, the mortal enemies of the marriage covenant consist of (1) the pleasure seeking new-hedonism (or the 'new' morality), (2) the widespread acceptance of adultery, (3) the ease of divorce and annulment, and (4) the legalization of abortion (the equivalent of apostate ancient Israel's sacrificing children to Molech. Marriage was created for us to understand the spiritual God-plane relationship between Christ and the Church.

The LGBT movement has experienced a banner year. It has dominated the major headlines with the legalization of same-sex "marriage" and the widespread praise of Bruce Jenner's courage in "coming out" as a transgender person. Joseph Baity chronicles the path this movement has taken to get to this point.

Richard T. Ritenbaugh: Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, announced on January 20, 2012, that, as part of preventive health services for women, all health plans must provide no-cost coverage—including deductibles and co-payments—for all contraceptives ...

In the church, the argument over evolution was settled long ago, but such is not the case in the wider world. David Grabbe goes beyond the science to what embracing evolution actually says about a person's—and a society's—relationship with God.

Focusing upon II Corinthians 13:5, John Ritenbaugh cautions us of the futility of assenting to a code of standards we do not intend to apply. Belief without conduct equals a dead faith leading to death. Works give evidence that we really do believe and have the Holy Spirit in us. What we believe (correctly or incorrectly) will inevitably produce works. According to a survey conducted by Barna, a large segment of professing Christians have rejected major tenets of the Bible (in effect, calling Jesus Christ a liar) fashioning their own subjective, private religions, giving themselves license to sin in selected areas and fostering a tolerance for hideous societal perversions. Rejecting a biblical world-view, unfaithful modern Israel has degenerated into a habitation of demons. As God's called out ones, we are admonished not to conform or follow suit, but to yield to God's purification.

John Reid uses the analogy of a minefield to illustrate Satan's diabolical obstacles to keep us from attaining our objective?the Kingdom of God. The Devil sets specific kinds of mines: a) the lusts of the world (greed, alcohol, drugs, sex, etc.), analogous to the Claymore mine, designed to kill individuals; b) doctrinal confusion, analogous to the Bouncing Betty mine, designed to take out, confuse, and destroy whole groups of people. He also suggests ways to help get out of the minefields, including calling out to God for help in tracing our route back to what led to our spiritual disorientation. To navigate safely through, we must ask for God's protection, maintaining humility, watchfulness, and diligence in our task of overcoming and walking in the footsteps of the Mine Detector (I Peter 2:21).

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